Passing enums through (as parameters)

[ShaneO]

Hello,

I am new to these forums and brand new to Java..

I'm trying to compile this code with no success.. I am at a loss as to what I could be doing wrong - perhaps some feedback might help me out.

public class Parliament {

	// Each member of parliament is assigned the following:
	// Name, Political Party, and Province

	enum Party {
		CON, NDP, LIB, GRN, BQC, IND
	}
	enum Province {
		ON, QC, NS, NB, MB, BC, PE, SK, AB, NL, NT, YT, NU
	}

	String strName;
	Party enmParty;
	Province enmProvince;
	
    public void Parliament(String strName, Party enmParty, Province enmProvince) {
 
        this.strName = strName;
	this.enmParty = enmParty;
	this.enmProvince = enmProvince;
	
	System.out.println("Name: " + strName);
	System.out.println("Party: " + enmParty);
	System.out.println("Province: " + enmProvince);
    }
}

It's giving me an error reading:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: main

Forgive me if I'm missing something very obvious.

[JosAH]

Erm, just a wild guess: your class is missing a static public void main(String[] args) method? (it can't be run by the JVM)

kind regards,

Jos

[ShaneO]

Thanks!

And forgive my lack of understanding.. I'm used to VB, and other less common languages (Turing, etc).. all of which seem much, much more simple. (In addition - I have no access to any IDEs)

Basically, my question now becomes - how do you call a method from the 'public static void main(String[] args)?

If I wanted to call the Parliament method for user input, I'm thinking it would be similar to:

Parliament Member1 = new Parliament();

Hopefully I'm not too far off..

Thank you for your much needed help.

[JosAH]

So now you know that the JVM searches for that main( ... ) method to start executing your program. The statements in the body of that method can do what they want, e.g. create new objects and call methods on that object. Your initialization of the Member1 reference variable makes a fine statement in the body of your main( ... ) method.

kind regards,

Jos